The door closed with a soft click, making the room feel like a world of its own.
The atmosphere inside changed instantly once the lock was secure. The youthful look on the face of Gu Yue vanished, replaced by a cold and powerful majesty.
She walked back to the sofa and sat down. Her posture was natural, but she moved with the air of someone who expected total obedience.
Di Tian had already stood up from his seat. He stood respectfully to the side, and the confusion in his eyes was gone, replaced by deep reverence.
Gu Yue looked up at Di Tian and asked a single word in a calm, steady voice. She simply asked him what he thought.
The image of the young man from a few minutes ago appeared clearly in the mind of Di Tian. He thought about it for a moment before giving his answer.
He said that based on the way the boy looked, his physical build, and his small habits, he was almost exactly like the Spirit Ice Douluo as a youth.
He added that if the boy were a few years older and his body grew more, the two would probably be identical in every way.
Di Tian had seen Huo Yuhao with his own eyes ten thousand years ago, so his words carried a lot of weight.
Gu Yue tapped her fingers against the arm of the sofa as she thought. She asked if it was possible for two people to look and act so much alike in this world.
Di Tian did not have a clear answer for that. It was something that went beyond what he knew about the world.
He frowned and continued his thoughts, saying that the energy around the boy was also very similar to the Spirit Ice Douluo.
However, he noted that after looking closely, there were small differences and the energy was not exactly the same.
He wondered aloud if the boy was a descendant of the Spirit Ice Douluo whose bloodline had suddenly awakened a rare ancient trait.
He spoke these thoughts mostly to himself. Gu Yue listened without stopping him, thinking about the possibility in her own mind.
In the next second, Di Tian seemed to realize something else, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
His eyes were usually hidden by a secret technique to look black, but a bright golden light flashed through them as he felt a shock of excitement.
He looked up at Gu Yue and spoke with a voice that was shaking with emotion. He asked if the boy could actually be the Spirit Ice Douluo himself, returned from the God Realm.
This was a bold and terrifying guess, and even Gu Yue felt her heart skip a beat when she heard it.
She quickly calmed herself down and began to think deeply about the idea. After a moment, she slowly shook her head and rejected the theory.
She said the chance was very low because even if the Spirit Ice Douluo returned to the lower world, he would not throw away his divine power to start over from the beginning.
She paused and her voice became much deeper as she noted that the God Realm itself had vanished without a trace.
It was only because she knew the God Realm was no longer watching that she, the Silver Dragon King, had dared to show herself in the human world.
The shock in the eyes of Di Tian began to fade away, and his pupils returned to their dark, ink-black color.
He realized his guess was too wild and did not make much sense when he thought about the facts.
Di Tian let out a long breath, trying to push the confusion and shock out of his chest along with the air.
He said that even if he was wrong, the boy clearly had many deep connections to the Spirit Ice Douluo.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to look and act so much like the legend from ten thousand years ago.
Gu Yue looked out the window at the sky over Donghai City, which looked very wide from the high floor.
The image of Huo Yuhao appeared in her mind again. The many mysteries surrounding her senior brother felt like thick clouds that she wanted to push through.
The room fell into a long silence for a while. Finally, Di Tian asked if she had called him here just to check the identity of this Huo Yuhao.
Gu Yue looked back at him and said that was only one of the reasons she had summoned him.
Di Tian became very serious when he heard there were other tasks. He focused his spirit and waited for her next order.
The expression of Gu Yue became more serious than ever before. She told him that most of her power was currently sealed and she needed to take back the power of the Golden Dragon King.
A flash of golden light appeared in the eyes of Di Tian as she said those words. His voice shook with a mix of excitement and hope as he asked if she had finally decided to take action.
Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, had split her soul into two people, Gu Yue and Naer. This was done so they could enter the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek Academy.
Naer had already made it into Shrek Academy and was even a student of the powerful master Yun Ming.
The reason Gu Yue stayed in Donghai City instead of going to the main headquarters was because she felt the power of the Golden Dragon King nearby.
Di Tian had originally suggested that they should just take the bloodline power from the body of Tang Wulin by force.
But back then, Gu Yue had refused his plan. She believed the spirit beasts needed to learn how to live with humans instead of just using violence.
Now that she was ready to act, Di Tian was thrilled. He believed that if she combined with that power, a new Dragon God would appear.
Di Tian remembered the supreme power of the old Dragon God, which was much stronger than any of the kings in the God Realm.
Only then could the spirit beast race finally find a way to rise up and rule again.
The image of Tang Wulin, whom she had seen just the day before, flashed through the mind of Gu Yue.
She remembered he was a boy with kind eyes and a strong will to succeed. A small feeling of sadness moved through her heart.
But her eyes quickly turned cold and steady. She told herself that even if he was an innocent boy, the future of the spirit beasts was more important than one human.
She decided that they could not wait any longer. She told Di Tian that they would make their move tonight.
Gu Yue looked out the window again, staring toward the location where Tang Wulin was staying.
She told Di Tian to be fast and clean about it because she did not want the boy to suffer any more pain than necessary.
If the Golden Dragon King bloodline was pulled out of him, Tang Wulin would definitely die. This was the only kindness she could give him.
Di Tian bowed and accepted the order, his eyes glowing with a faint golden light.
At the dormitory building of Donghai Academy, the school was very quiet because the holiday had started. Most of the students had already left for home.
Tang Wulin was still there because his parents were missing and he had nowhere else to go. The school was his only home for now.
The academy allowed students to stay, but the empty building felt very lonely and cold at night.
Tang Wulin lay on his bed, but he did not fall asleep right away. He planned to leave the next day to find his teacher, Mang Tian.
Mang Tian was the person he trusted most in the world now that his parents were gone. Thinking of him made the boy feel a little less lonely.
His eyes grew heavy as he thought about the future. The hard training from the day and the quiet of the room finally made him fall into a deep sleep.
Outside the window, the moonlight was hidden by clouds, making the room dark and grey. The only sound was the steady breathing of the sleeping boy.
He had no idea that a tall figure was already standing right next to his bed. The figure was silent and seemed to be made of shadows.
He did not know that his life was about to end and that a fatal crisis had arrived.
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